[fpc-devel] UTF-8 string literals

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 5 May 2017 15:55:32 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 May 2017, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 5 May 2017 14:30:32 +0200 (CEST)
> > Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> >  
> >> [...]  
> >> > AFAIK FPC stores UTF-8 string literals (-Fcutf8) as widestrings
> >> > instead of UTF8String. Please correct me if I'm wrong.  
> 
> To make sure I was presenting correct facts, I did some tests.
> 
> As a result of the tests, I think the above statement is wrong.

Naah, not wrong, just a non precise term "UTF-8 string literal". ;)

ASCII is stored by FPC as 8-bit string. No problem with that.
The interesting part are the non ASCII strings. Try your code with
the string examples I gave.

Mattias